A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.
~Sir Thomas Browne

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
~Author Unknown

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~Martin Buxbaum

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~Victor Hugo

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
~Oscar Wilde

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.
~Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~William Shakespeare

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
~Cicero

My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.
~Toni Morrison

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
~Lauren Bacall

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
~Cynthia Ozick, The Paris Review